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Description

A study of international principles and rules regulating the conduct of international and other armed conflicts; the historical development of restraints on armed conflict; the distinction between rules governing recourse to armed coercion and those governing the conduct of armed hostilities; the protections afforded by the 1949 Geneva Conventions and the 1977 Protocols to combatants and noncombatants, including civilians, POWs, the wounded, and the sick; the role of the International Committee of the Red Cross; and human rights issues.

Textbooks and Other Materials

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Students should purchase multi-volume xeroxed text, International Humanitarian Law: Problems and Materials, from the Course Packet Center, located in Room 473A of the Law School.